Understanding Disability Policy

by Alan Roulstone and Simon Prideaux

Book Overview

We live at a paradoxical time for many disabled people: some achieve new freedoms while others face cuts in services and attempts to restrict who counts as disabled. Locating disability policy within broader social policy contexts, Alan Roulstone and Simon Prideaux critically explore the roles of social support, poverty, socio-economic status, community safety, spatial change, and other issues in shaping disabled people's opportunities. They also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847427391
• ISBN13: 9781847427397
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.5"